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Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.
Jessica Savitch
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Jessica Savitch
Age: 36 †
Born: 1947
Born: February 1
Died: 1983
Died: October 23
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News Presenter
San Diego
California
Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story
Jessica Beth Savitch
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More quotes by Jessica Savitch
Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.
Jessica Savitch
Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.
Jessica Savitch
Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.
Jessica Savitch
In real life, events seem much less dramatic.
Jessica Savitch
The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire the good news is that we got exclusive footage.
Jessica Savitch
Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.
Jessica Savitch
The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.
Jessica Savitch
The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer.
Jessica Savitch
When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up.
Jessica Savitch
News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.
Jessica Savitch
The relationship between talent — a term loosely applied to those who work on-air — and management is uneasy, at best.
Jessica Savitch
My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.
Jessica Savitch
I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.
Jessica Savitch
No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.
Jessica Savitch
The code of the road is, if there is anything to eat, eat if there is a place to sit, sit if there is a restroom, go.
Jessica Savitch
The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.
Jessica Savitch
News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.
Jessica Savitch
When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.
Jessica Savitch
In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.
Jessica Savitch
Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.
Jessica Savitch
